Green Dye
"Cactus Green" redirects here. For the plant, see Cactus.
Green Dye


| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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"label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
},
{
"field": "Yes",
"label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
},
{
"field": "Yes (64)",
"label": "Stackable"
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"invimages": [
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"images": [
"Green Dye.png",
"Green Dye BE4.png"
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}
Green dye is one of the sixteen available dyes.
Obtaining
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Desert house chest | 1 | 14.3%{ "item": "Green Dye", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.14254173828500694, "structure": "Village", "container": "Desert house chest" }
| ||
Smelting
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus + Any fuel |
[1] | ||
| Cactus + Any fuel |
|
Trading
Wandering traders may sell 3 green dye for an emerald.
Usage
Like all other dyes, green dye can be:
- Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of green wool.
- Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
- Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
- Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta, shulker boxes, candles, and harnesses.
- Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
- Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
- Used to add patterns to banners.
- Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
- Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
- Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyan Dye | Lapis Lazuli + |
| |
| Cyan Dye | Blue Dye + |
||
| Green Balloon | Latex + + Helium + Lead |
| |
| Green Bed | Any Bed + |
A bed of any color can be re-dyed using dyes. | |
| Green Bundle | Any Bundle + Matching Dye |
||
| Green Candle | Candle + |
||
| Green Carpet | Any Carpet + |
| |
| Green Carpet | White Carpet + |
| |
| Green Concrete Powder | + Sand + Gravel |
Red sand cannot be used in place of sand. | |
| Green Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Green Glow Stick | Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Matching Dye + Luminol |
| |
| Green Harness | Any Harness + Matching Dye |
||
| Dyed Shulker Box | Any Shulker Box + Matching Dye |
The shulker box retains its contents. If it is renamed on an anvil, it also retains its name. | |
| Green Stained Glass Pane | Glass Pane + |
||
| Green Stained Glass | Glass + |
||
| Stained Terracotta | Terracotta + |
||
| Green Wool | Any Wool + |
||
| Lime Dye | + White Dye |
||
| Lime Dye | + Bone Meal |
| |
| Green Banner pattern | + Banner |
||
| Green Banner image | + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple |
Loom ingredient
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||
| 9% | 17% | 12 × | ||
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
green_dye | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
green_dye | dye / 2 | 397 | Item | item |
Video
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.3.1 | 1.3 | ||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | |||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Cactus green can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w19a | Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w41a | Stained glass can now be crafted. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w30a | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w06a | Cactus green can now be used to craft green concrete powder. | |||||
| 17w15a | Added the ability to dye beds. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | |||||
| 18w44a | Green dye can now change the text color on signs to green. | ||||||
| Green dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 18w50a | Green dye can now be found in chests in desert village houses. | ||||||
| 19w05a | Added the wandering trader, which sells green dye. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Green dye can now be bought by shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Green dye can now be used to craft green candles. | |||||
| 21w19a | Green dye can no longer be used to craft green candles. | ||||||
| Pre-release 1 | Green dye can once again be used to craft green candles. | ||||||
| 1.19.3 Experiment | 22w42a | Green dye can now change the text color on hanging signs to green. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.3.0 | |||||||
| v0.3.2 | Cactus green is now obtainable by smelting cacti in a furnace. It still has no usage. | ||||||
| v0.4.0 | Cactus green can now be used to craft cyan dye, lime dye, and green wool. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Cactus green can now be used to dye water in cauldrons. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Cactus green can now be used to dye shulkers. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Cactus green can now be used to dye beds, shulker boxes, and craft concrete powder. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Cactus green can now be used to craft stained glass, patterns on banners, and firework stars. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Cactus green can now be used to craft balloons and glow sticks. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Green dye is now sold by wandering traders. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Green dye can now be found in desert village house chests. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Green dye can now be sold to shepherd villagers. | ||||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.21.110 | Preview 1.21.110.20 | ||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | ||
| TU14 | 1.04 | 1.0.1 | Added the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars. | ||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Cactus green can be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star. | ||
| Stained clay can now be crafted. | |||||||
| TU25 | CU14 | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.17 | Stained glass can now be crafted. | ||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added banners, which can be dyed. | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Added the ability to dye shulker boxes. |
| Cactus green can now be used to craft green concrete powder. | |||||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Added the ability to dye beds. |
| TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | 1.64 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | 1.0.11 | Cactus green can now be used to dye leather horse armor. |
| Cactus green can now be used to dye water in a cauldron. | |||||||
| 1.83 | "Cactus Green" has been renamed to "Green Dye". | ||||||
| Green dye can now be used to dye cat collars. | |||||||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| 1.91 | Added the wandering trader, which sells green dye. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
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| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the dye ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 351. | |||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of green dye has been changed from dye/2 to green_dye. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Green Dye" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.